Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rhonda Britten

Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.

Rhonda Britten

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint.

Haruki Murakami

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

Haruki Murakami

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

Harlan Ellison

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

Otto Rank

Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.

Ouida

If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

Wietse Venema

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

Whoopi Goldberg

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

Yasser Arafat

I have a solution. I agree for the United Nations forces to be on the borders between me and them for any period of time. Okay? Ezer Weizman challenged me a few days ago to accept an Israeli - Palestinian confederation.

Wilma Mankiller

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

Will Oldham

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

Will Rogers

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Zachary Quinto

I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance.

Zhuangzi

The creature born is the creature dying.

Zhuangzi

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

Wayne Dyer

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.

Wayne Dyer

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Wayne Dyer

Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

Walter Cunningham

In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.

William Bell

The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct.

Wayne Pacelle

People are being forced to confront the realities. At the same time, we have an ever-growing understanding of the intelligence and emotional capacities of animals and an acceptance of the principle that animal cruelty is a moral problem.

William Glasser

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

Voltaire

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

Voltaire

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

William Styron

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

Walter Savage Landor

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Winston Churchill

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

Winston Churchill

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.